Detention or Eco Club: Choosing your future - Juan Martinez

Transcriber: Andrea McDonough Reviewer: Bedirhan Cinar

翻译人员: mina wong 校对人员: Jiawei Ni

This might seem like a far-away place

似乎是在遥远的地方

in a far-away land.

在无人涉及的岛屿

My house is right there in the middle.

我的家就在那中心

This was 1992 L.A. Riots.

那是1992年洛杉矶暴动

And I remember being 8 years old

还记得8岁的我

and looking out there

看着外头

and thinking to myself,

思考自己的处境

"This is it, this is game over. I'm done."

感觉事已至此，天不助我

The military came in,

军队来了

the cops came in,

警察来了

and I thought they were going to save us,

我以为他们会来救我们

and for some reason they kept on pointing the guns at my people.

但是因为一些原因， 他们竟然拿枪指着我们

So I grew up angry,

因此我怀着愤怒成长

I grew up mad.

带着疯狂

I struggled watching my parents pay rent at the end of the month.

当我痛苦地看着父母为了月底还租

Sometimes they had to take food out of their mouths

有时候他们不得不省吃俭用

so that we, my two younger sisters and I, could eat.

从而让我和我的两个妹妹可以吃多点

And the people that I saw taking care of their family

当我看到那些照顾家庭

and taking care of business were the gang members.

忙于生意的那些人 却是帮派成员

So I considered that as a career path,

所以我便以为那就是一种唯一的职业生涯

not because they were the ones that,

不只是因为他们是帮派成员

you know, had the girls, had the cars,

正如你所知道的，有女人，有汽车

it was because they were the ones who took care of their families.

而且是因为他们是唯一的可以照顾家人的人

And I love my family enough to even to consider that as a possibility.

出于对家庭的热爱，我考虑过进帮派

But it wasn't always bad.

但生活中並不只是有不美好的事情

If you haven't put two and two together,

如果你对我还有所不知的话

I'm a Dodgers fan.

我是道奇队球迷

I like the Dodgers even more so

我之所以喜欢道奇队

because Dodgers Stadium sits in the middle of the Elysian Park,

是因为道奇体育场就位于伊犁森公园的正中间

one of the biggest parks in L.A.,

它是洛杉矶最大的公园之一

and I remember going out on the weekends with my family

我还记得我和我的家人周末出去玩

and for la carne asada and sharing our cultura

一起分享烤肉，一起分享文化

and them taking me on trails

他们带我小试身手

and showing me all this amazing stuff that they knew.

向我展示他们的所知道的美妙事物

I grew up, I went to Dorsey High School.

我长大之后，就读于多西高中

You might not know Dorsey that much,

你也许不太了解多西

but you might know Crenshaw High School.

但是你可能知道克伦肖高中

Crenshaw and Dorsey are rival high schools,

这两所学校是竞争对手

but they are more than just rivals

他们不仅仅是

in the traditional sense of rival high schools,

传统意义上的死对头

they are the birth place of The Bloods and The Crips.

也是帮派产生的摇篮

So I was in 9th grade detention,

所以我九年级的时候被课后留堂了

and they gave me an ultimatum:

他们给我下了最后通牒

They said, "Either you stay in detention,

他们说：“要么你就留校察看，

or you go to this thing called Eco Club."

要么你就去参加生态俱乐部。”

And I said, "What?!? Eco Club?

我说：“什么！生态俱乐部？

Forget you!"

我还是算了吧。”

But I took a chance and I went over to Eco Club.

然而我还是把握住这个机会 加入了生态俱乐部

And the first thing that they said was,

他们所说的第一件事是：

"Grab a bag of seeds and let's go out."

”拿上一袋种子，我们出去走走吧。“

And I picked jalapeños

于是我挑了墨西哥辣椒籽

because I wanted to grill salsa for my mom at the end of that.

因为我想在这结束之后 可以用来给妈妈做烤酱

And they tricked me!

然而，他们就是这样陷害我的

Then all of a sudden, I started worrying about photosynthesis

突然间，我开始担心光合作用

and the pH balance,

PH值平衡

and the UV radiation,

紫外线的辐射

and all this different stuff that would make my jalapeños grow.

而如此的各种各样的因素会影响 墨西哥辣椒的成长

At the end of that semester, they gave me an opportunity

学期结束的时候，他们给了我一个机会

to go to the Teton Science Schools in Wyoming.

让我去到了怀俄明州的特顿科学学校

For a kid who has never been out of South Central,

对于一个从来没有离开中南部的孩子而言，

to see mountains for the first time,

是我第一次看到山

to look up at the night sky and count,

看到夜晚的天空可以数星星

I couldn't even count, the stars.

我甚至不知道如何数星星

For the first time in my life at the age of 15

对于15岁的我而言，这是我人生中第一次

I saw more stars than I could count.

看到数不胜数的星星

I had to pinch myself and look at that shooting star

我不得不掐一下我自己，再看看那颗流星

and say, "No, that's not the ghetto bird coming up at me."

心想：”那不是要来抓我的贫穷鸟

And the ghetto bird, you won't find in the Audobon book,

至于这种鸟，你不会在赏鸟图鉴中找到的

it's a police helicopter in case you don't know.

因为它是一种你所不知道的警用直升机

And I went back home and I found mentors and friends

于是我回到家之后，找到了我的导师，朋友

and family and people who supported me in this,

还有我的家人等支持我的人

and in 2005, this guy named Richard Louv

2005年，一个叫理查德·洛依的人

wrote a book called <i>Last Child in the Woods</i>,

写了一本《森林里最后的一个孩子》

and he coined a phrase called "nature-deficit disorder".

并且自创了一个“自然缺陷障碍”的词语

It's not a medical term, don't worry,

别担心，这不是一个医学术语

you don't have to take drugs for it,

不需要服药治疗

it's an easy fix:

因为它很容易治愈

all you have to do is get outside.

你所需要做的只是走到户外

Because we have 7 billion people in the world today,

因为今天世界上有70亿人

but if you were to put all those 7 billion people

但是如果要把这70亿人放在一起

shoulder-to-shoulder with each other,

而且摩肩接踵的话

they could all fit in the city of L.A.

他们全都可以挤进洛杉矶

It's not necessarily that we are running out of space,

然而我们不用考虑空间的问题

it's how we are using that space up.

而该考虑如何使用空间的方法

The average U.S. teenager now spends

现在平均有4.5亿的美国青少年

somewhere between 40 and 65 hours a week

每周花在使用电子设备的时间 是40到65小时

connected to some type of media device,

投入在一些媒体设备

some kind of technology.

一些科技产品上

That's a full-time job!

就像一份全职的工作

We're not saying that its bad,

我们不是说这样不好

we're just saying get out, have fun!

而是要鼓励走到户外，享受一下吧！

And I got together with some friends

我和我些许朋友相聚

and we created this thing called the "Natural Leaders Network".

我们创建了一个“大自然领袖网络”

And we wanted to find out

我们想找出

how other people are getting outside all over the world.

在世界上，其他人是怎么走到大自然中

We thought it was just us here in the U.S.,

我们曾经以为只有我们美国人

but no, no, it's all over the world.

但是错了，在全球各地都是如此

And we started getting amazing things back:

之后我们开始发现一些有意思的事情

the beaches,

海滩

the mountains,

高山

in the middle of the city,

市中心

how people got out,

人们是怎么走到户外

just the pure joy of celebrating our connection with nature.

仅仅是为了单纯享受自然的快乐

And it all started with that one group.

一切都从这个团体开始

I want to give you this new motivation

我想带给你新的发现

about a new nature movement,

关于你从未发现的自然运作

and 7 reasons for a new nature movement.

以及其七个原因

You can create your own reasons,

你可以创造你的理由

but these are 7 reasons that we're talking about.

但是这是我们所谈论的七个理由

I'm going to speed up a little bit because of time.

我点加快速度，因为时间有限

But, take it from these kids, let's go get outside!

然而学习这些孩子，让我们走出户外

Last year I got to climb the grand Teton.

去年，我去爬大提顿国家公园

I went from being that kid from South Central

从某种程度上我是来自南方中心中南部一带的孩子

realizing that somehow I was connected to those mountains,

发现了我和那些山的联系

that my community in South Central L.A. was connected to the mountains up there.

我在洛杉矶的南方社区里与这些山产生了联系

And it all made sense,

这一切都十分合理

the world made sense to me.

世界对我而言产生了意义

Science, and math, and history, and English,

科学，数学，历史和英语

and all the different things that were happening in this world

对于这世界上发生的其他一切事情

made sense to me because of that.

我都因此而感到明了

I went out to be the first one to graduate from my family in high school.

我成为了我们家族中第一个从高中毕业的人

I'm the first one.

I'm a National Geographic Explorer today.

我是第一个人

现在，我是国界地理杂志的探险员

I do these amazing talks,

可以去各地做精彩的演讲

and I'm not telling you these things so I can brag about it,

我不是因为吹嘘才告诉你们这些事情

or that I can show off,

或者向你们炫耀什么

I'm telling you these things because if a kid from South Central

我告诉你们这些东西 是因为如果一个来自中南部的孩子

who was about to be a gang member

那个曾经想成为一个帮派成员的孩子

can grow up to be a National Geographic Explorer

长大之后成为了国家地理探险员

and sit here in front of you and address you like I am today,

可以今天坐在你面前 并且像今天这样进行演讲

then don't ever, ever in your life doubt what you can do.

所以请不要怀疑，你在生命中 你有不能做到的事情

At the end of the day, I do what I do because of my family.

今天，我为我的家人而努力

My family means the world to me

我的家庭就是我的全部

and from this day forward,

从今天开始

each one of you in this room is part of that family.

在这个房间里的每一个人 都是这个家庭的一份子

I want you go to away with that

我希望你们记住这件事

and I'll leave it with this one quote,

最后我要送大家一句话

which has driven me to this point:

这句话曾激励着我

"Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.

一旦社会改变了，就不可逆转

You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.

你无法使那些 博览全书的人变得愚昧无知

You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride.

你无法羞辱那些 捍卫尊严的人

You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.

你无法压迫那些 无所畏惧的人

We have seen the future, and the future is ours."

我们看到了未来， 而未来是属于我们的

It's your future, it's our future,

它是你的未来，也是我们的未来

so go get 'em!

所以，让我们奋力争取吧！